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GitOps AI Apps via GitHub

Helix delivers on AI GitOps by watching for Helix Apps in a GitHub repository. Once connected, Helix will receive a webhook from GitHub to tell Helix the App needs updating. So to update your app, simply git push!

Follow the instructions below to get started with GitHub Helix Apps.

1. Create your Helix app on Github

Click on one of the links below to take you to the template creation page on Github:

Create a new repository using this template. You can make it private if you like, since you will give Helix permission to access all your repos later.

2. Connect your repository to Helix.

  1. Click on the menu (three dots) next to the Signed in as panel. Then click on Apps.
  2. Click New App + at the top right.
  3. Follow the instructions to give Helix access to your repositories. Helix will only access repositories that you maintain/own.
  4. Filter the repositories for the one you just created above.
  5. Click Connect Repo.

This will now clone the repo and add it as an app. The next window shows a summary of the information located in the helix.yaml.

From now on, Helix will stay in sync via a Github webhook. Any commit to main will result in Helix updating itself.

3. Test Your App

  1. Click on your App and scroll to the bottom right. Copy the key under API Keys. If none exist, you will see an option to create an App API Key.
  2. Run a curl request using this key as the bearer token. This will trigger your app. This example uses model llama3:instruct but any Helix supported AI Model can be used.
curl -i -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APP_API_KEY" https://app.tryhelix.ai/v1/chat/completions --data-raw '{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Using the Coinbase API, what is the live Bitcoin price in GBP"}], "model":"llama3:instruct", "stream":false}'

You should see a response that looks something like:

{"created":1715691428,"object":"chat.completion","id":"51aaec1f-0ed4-4a06-815a-23171f69aa0c","choices":[{"index":0,"finish_reason":"stop","message":{"role":"assistant","content":"**The live Bitcoin price in GBP is £49,074.38.**"}}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":0,"completion_tokens":0,"total_tokens":0}}
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